Stories on Detroit

  1. Amie Turner says her favorite thing about the Riverwalk is “looking over the water and seeing Canada, like it is the coolest thing.” Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    From industrial wasteland to urban lure, Detroit’s Riverwalk sees 3 million visitors a year

  2. National Bank of Detroit Building, Detroit Financial District. Image credit: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

    Majority of Detroiters report stable, improved financial situation compared to year ago

  3. A typical scene at a Detroit City Football Club game. The minor league soccer team's motto is "Passion for Our City, Passion for the Game." Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    Soccer in Motown: ‘Passion for our city, passion for the game’

  4. Students assessing an urban agricultural site in Detroit's Lower Eastside. Image credit: Dave Brenner

    Urban agriculture in Detroit: Scattering vs. clustering and the prospects for scaling up

  5. Gloved hands drawing a vaccine with masked child and adult in the backgrounds. Image courtesy: DMACS

    Detroit parents less likely to vaccinate themselves than nonparents, leads to low youth vaccination rates

  6. Aerial view of Detroit. Image courtesy DMACS

    U-M forecast: Detroit economy showing ‘resilience’ in face of pandemic downturn, though challenges persist

  7. Roary, the Detroit Lions mascot, while filming some InPACT exercise sessions at the Detroit Public Television Studio. Image credit: Daryl Marshke, Michigan Photography

    Fit as a family: Classroom fitness program expands to living rooms, parks

  8. 9/19/18 GM’s Renaissance Center and the skyline from Belle Isle in Detroit, MI. Image credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.

    Uneven recovery: Detroit unemployment rate sits at 20%

  9. University of Michigan alumnus Douglas Jones is a Detroit-based artist who co-developed the Ancestor Posterity Butterfly Garden just outside the Joseph Walker Williams Center off of Rosa Parks Boulevard. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    Ancestor garden: Community plants butterfly garden honoring Detroiters lost to COVID-19

  10. The schooner Inland Seas takes Detroit and other students on a sail along the Detroit River. Students, along with some help from staff and volunteers, conduct scientific tests, and learn about local history. Image credit: Eric Bronson, Michigan Photography

    What lies beneath: Detroit River narratives emerge through schooner trips, boat building

  11. This artist’s rendering shows the Detroit Center for Innovation, which will now be built in The District Detroit. Image courtesy of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

    Detroit Center for Innovation to be built in The District Detroit

  12. U-M Block M Logo

    U-M will renovate Rackham building in Detroit

  13. U-M Block M Logo

    Despite cost dip, Michigan auto insurance still high with persistent racial disparities

  14. The state of Michigan overlaying a faucet dripping water. Image credit: Pixabay

    New report: Growing water affordability crisis touches all Michiganders, urban and rural

  15. Digital facsimile of cartographer William Brasier’s “Plan of the Fort at De Troit,” (1761) recently acquired by the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan. Its key of References identifies the following locations: “A. The King’s Powder Magazine. B. Block-houses. C. The Cavalier. D. The Church. E. Commandants Garden. F. Powder Magazine belonging to the Inhabitants.”

    U-M Clements Library acquires rare hand-drawn map of Detroit from 1761, pursues crowdfunding

  16. U-M Block M Logo

    U-M, city of Flint partner on fiscal reporting pilot program for transparency, better governance

  17. Factory chimney smoke trail at sunset.

    Researchers from U-M, MSU, OU team up to develop wearable pollution-measuring technology

  18. During a two-day visit to the U-M campus, the inaugural class of Marygrove students worked together on problem-solving and engineering projects. Image credit: Heather Nash

    Teaching residents in unique Detroit school program find medical-like mentoring model inspires confidence

  19. Flooding in Detroit. Image courtesy: Michigan State Police Emergency Management & Homeland Security Division

    U-M launches SEAS Sustainability Clinic in Detroit to combat effects of climate change, residential flooding

  20. Pastor Charles Williams II at Historic King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit. Image credit: Eric Bronson.

    Community in crisis: Black churches expand services